Projects
Social relations through consumer practices. Well-to-do households in Antwerp, second half 17th - first half 19th century. University of Antwerp
Advertising in online news media: How to balance consumer protection, medium credibility and effective advertising? University of Antwerp
Brand Activism: From the Struggle for Profit, to the Profit in Struggle Hasselt University
Brand Activism: From the Struggle for Profit, to the Profit in Struggle Hasselt University
Celebrity acitivism: An Empirical Study of the Co-operation between Social Movements and Flemish Celebrities. University of Antwerp
Reassembling civil society: Participation as a hybrid collective. Ghent University
Recently, the classic idea of civil society seems outdated, as citizens increasingly participate in hybrid contexts that mingle roles and rationalities of civil society, state, market, and private life. To understand this new condition, this research project will develop a new conceptual framework and take an innovative methodological approach, looking at hybrid participation in a supermarket (consumer activism).
Social, ecological, and economic issues: From linkages to socio-political cleavages in France? KU Leuven
A doctoral research could explore the articulations of and interlinkages between climate justice and climate policy in the US context. It could investigate the nature, framing and operationalization of climate justice and its claims by US civil society and probe into the institutional responses to these claims, i.e. whether and the extent to which climate justice permeates US climate policy-making. In other words, and broadly, it could ...
Mains facing AC/DC power converter with efficient standby mode KU Leuven
Electronic devices spend most of their lifetime doing nothing, in the so-called standby mode. Summing all power of a device consumed in standby during its entire live, gives a total amount of standby energy that is much larger than the energy consumed during activity.
All these electronic devices are powered by the mains through a power management circuit which is designed to be efficient in active mode. It is however very inefficient in ...
Establishing the contribution of the muscle-tendon interaction to the metabolic cost of running using a blended experimental and computational approach KU Leuven
Although humans have been running bipedally for thousands of years, there is still substantial variability in the way we run, i.e. our preferred running pattern. Moreover, also the metabolic energy we consume to run at a certain, submaximal velocity varies between runners. Despite the large body of running related research, our understanding on the underlying mechanisms explaining the variability in preferred running pattern and/or the ...